XX年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语词汇学(英文)

XX年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语词汇学（英文）
英语词汇学（英文）
（课程代号：8268）
question sheet
ⅰ. some of the following statements are true, and the others false. mark your answer by circling t or f on your answer sheet. (10%)
1. quite a number of derivational affixes have more than one meaning.
2. simple words in english are usually non-motivated.
3. lexical meaning is dominant in content words.
4. componential analysis has no disadvantages.
5. polysemic and homonymous words are stylistically useful to achieving humour or irony, or to heighten dramatic effect.
6. in most cases, the native term is more literary than the foreign one.
7. differences can be found between american and british english in pronunciation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary.
8. when a prefix is added to a word, its word-class is usually changed.
9. a special dictionary deals with one sector of the lexicon of the language.
10. words in the same semantic field do not have
a number of collocations in common.
ⅱ. the following are multiple-choice questions. mark your answer with a, b, c, or d on your answer sheet. (20%)
11. general Officer; editorial article; gold medal" are often shortened as 'general, editorial, and gold' respectively. in these cases that there is a ____ behind this sort of semantic change.
foreign influence
social cause
linguistic cause
psychological cause
12. of the following words, _____ is an initialism.
un
nato
basic
unesco
13. of the following word-formation processes, _____ is the most productive.
clipping
blending
initialism
derivation
14. in terms of oppositeness of meaning, _____ is
a pair of conversives.
"employed" and "unemployed"
"present" and "absent"
"long" and "short"
"above" and "below"
15. the word "accident" used to mean "an occurrence or an event"; now it means "an unplanned or chance event with unfortunate consequences". the word has undergone a sort of semantic change called _____.
elevation
degeneration
extension
restriction
16. the information about the word class of a word is part of its _____ meaning.
lexical
grammatical
central
derived
17. the ambiguity in "pass the port" is caused by _____.
lexical items
a grammatical structure
homonymy
polysemy
18. _____ is not a pair of homophones.
"fair" (lovely) and "fair" (a regular gathering of people for barter and sale of goods)
"flea" (any of various small, wingless, bloodsucking insects) and "flee" (to escape) "lead" (to guide) and "lead" (metal of a dull bluish-grey colour that melts easily)
"compliment" (an expression of praise, admiration, or congratulation) and "complement" (something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection)
19. affixes can be grouped according to _____.
their linguistic origins
productivity
ability to change the word -class
all the above
20. the word _____ is usually not used by british people.
"tube"
"pub"
"railroad"
"taxi"
ⅲ. decide whether each of the following words is a a) simple word, b) compound word, c) derived word or d) shortened form. mark your answer on the answer sheet. (10%)
ⅳ. explain the following terms, giving appropriate examples. do it on the answer sheet. (10%)
31. the historical cause of change of word meaning
32. the central meaning
ⅴ. give a short answer (50-80 words) to the following questions. do it on the
answer sheet. (30%)
33. there are 3 kinds of sense relationships between english words, namely similarity (synonymy),
oppositeness (antonymy) and inclusion (hyponymy). illustrate this point./
34. explain initialism and acronym and the difference between them.
ⅵ. give a longer answer (150-200 words) to the following question. do it on the answer sheet. (20%)
35. what are the main types of word meaning?
/。